Late one evening when I was in a particularly gloomy headspace I started this series, unintentionally. I was feeling overwhelmed about realizing the connection between climate change and impulse shopping. In an attempt to numb my angst I turned my attention to a stash of digital clippings and textures I’d been collecting. I dropped a few into photoshop and starting fiddling away, trying to lose myself in an episode of golden girls. What started as subconscious layering of plastic and pollutant textures over natural ones became intentional collaging. I wound up with visual contortions that leave the viewer unable to pinpoint the organic materials from the manufactured.